by Allen Steele
Ah, this is more like it. For those of you who miss those Heinlein juveniles, Apollo's Outcasts is perfectly billed as a successor to books like Starman Jones and Have Space Suit -- Will Travel. And look, is it too much to ask for some boy-centered YA now and then? This was a great juvenile hard SF ...
Allen Steele's first foray into the Young Adult market does not disappoint. It has everything that Steele does so well in it. Believable, likeable characters, a crackerjack plot the ability to explain technology and a way to weave expostion into plot in such a way as to not damage the momentum of th...